Navigation
- Marta Siewierska-Stańczak
This module provides backend logic for corresponding frontend component navigation It provides several new functionalities: featured product, navigation teaser, and helps to adjust desktop and mobile navigation according to the project’s requirements. It allows to include or exclude a specific category from desktop or mobile navigation. Also, a custom URL can be used instead of Magento category as a navigation link target.
Installation
This module is required by theme-creativeshop and is installed out of the box when theme-creativeshop is required
composer require "creativestyle/magesuite-navigation" ^2.0.0
User Guide
2.9. Custom Links in Main Navigation
4.7.1. All Categories Navigation Flyout
4.7.2. Disable Categories for mobile and desktop devices
4.7.3. Featured Products in Navigation Flyout
Admin settings
Main settings
Catalog->Categories
Include in desktop navigation | When enabled category will be shown in navigation for desktop and tablet devices. Default value: true |
Include in mobile navigation | When enabled category will be shown in navigation for mobile devices. Default value: true |
Custom target URL | Links to this category will be replaced with above URL when provided. Use absolute URL (starts with https://) to redirect outside the shop. Use relative URL (i.e. customer/account/login/) to redirect within the shop. Default value: empty |
Include in main bar is part of Magesuite_MegaDropdown module
Navigation featured products
Under Navigation - Featured Products tab:
Choose products to display as featured products inside the desktop navigation flyout of a given category.
Navigation image teaser
Under Navigation - Image Teaser tab:
Add slogan, description, CTA label. CTA target link (all optional) and image (required) in order to display the navigation teaser.
Category group
A category can be marked with a group name. Please use single word string. In the child theme categories with such identifier may have distinct styling.
Backend
BE documentation is in progress
Frontend
Featured product
Navigation teaser
Corresponding components in theme-creativeshop:
theme-creativeshop/src/components/navigation
Styling
Styling is provided in:
theme-creativeshop/src/components/navigation/navigation.scss
theme-creativeshop/src/components/offcanvas-navigation/offcanvas-navigation.scss
Scripts
theme-creativeshop/src/components/navigation/navigation.ts
theme-creativeshop/src/components/offcanvas-navigation/offcanvas-navigation.ts
Additional functionalities
Active category
getActiveCategoryPath method, used in corresponding template magesuite-navigation/view/frontend/templates/navigation/active-category-path.phtml and then in theme-crativeshop in order to mark the active category with .active class
Category group styling
If a category is assigned to a group in the admin panel (see documentation above) it is possible to apply an additional styling to such navigation item.
Example:
.cs-navigation__item[data-category-identifier='eco'] {
& > #{$root}__link {
color: #76b636 !important;
&:after {
content: '';
background-image: url('../images/icons/leaf.svg');
background-repeat: no-repeat;
background-size: 1.5rem;
width: 1.5rem;
height: 1.7rem;
margin-left: 0.4rem;
transform: translateY(0.2rem);
display: inline-block;
}
}
}